Zachary New

2/25/15

CI 350

Photoshop Narrative

At first, Photoshop seemed extremely overwhelming. My first idea was

to create a picture of myself shooting a fireball much like you might see in

Street Fighter or some anime. That task seemed significantly more difficult

than I had planned, as I had to download special attachments. I was

uncomfortable doing so on the university’s computers. While I do enjoy the

many resources offered by Lynda.com, my first plan was to ask my friend

who is an art major for assistance on my project because he specializes in

digital imaging. Our schedules did not align however, so I was left

unprepared. When I settled with doing a picture on George Washington, I

first tried to Photoshop a gun in his hand simply because I couldn’t think of

anything else. Had I used Lynda.com I would have learned how to import

images, and could use the tutorial on the subject in the future. After playing

around with the filters I was very satisfied with how the oil painting of

George Washington came out with smoke around it. I felt it was very

pleasing to the eye.